Johnny Mitchell, Jr. (born January 20, 1971 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former professional American football tight end in the National Football League for the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of Nebraska and was drafted in the first round (fifteenth overall) of the 1992 NFL Draft.Mitchell graduated from Simeon Career Academy (then known as Simeon Vocational High School) in 1989.He is currently serving as a studio analyst for British television channel Sky Sports on their live NFL coverage, as well on ESPN Brasil and is the head coach for the Coritiba Crocodiles.Mitchell now also works part-time at Scarisbrick Hall School teaching young people American Football and Baseball. In the football season 2013/14 he won with the Coritiba Crocodiles the National Football Championship in Brasil. For the Coritiba Crocodiles the first Championship success after failures in the half finale and finale as well. He also brought part-time based a lot of fun to Kindergarten, Pre-Kindergarten and even Nursery children's from the International School of Curitiba with teaching T-ball.
As an MGM contract player, 1941-1942, he worked as Douglass Newland in at least eight films; as a Columbia contract player, 1942-1943, he worked as Douglass Drake in at least ten films; under contract to Warner Bros. in 1943, he adopted the name of the character he played in Mr. Skeffington (filmed 1943, released 1944), i.e. 'Johnny Mitchell', and worked in only three more films: Cinderella Jones (filmed 1943, released 1946), Pillow to Post (filmed 1944, released 1945), and a cameo bit as himself in Hollywood Canteen (1944), thus ending his career in front of the cameras in late 1944, although the delayed release of Cinderella Jones makes it look like he was still working two years later.